View Poll Results: For next generation of (native) linux gaming, what do you hope most?

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  • Valve's Steam portal finally released for Linux

    15 75.00%
  • Android (HD) gaming to run natively on Linux

    2 10.00%
  • Onlive's Linux port

    1 5.00%
  • not need: this is "the year of windows"... so gaming for linux will come anyway

    2 10.00%
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Thread: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

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    [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    If you had to take a choice, for Ubuntu Gaming, which scenario would you prefer.


    1. Valve finally releasing their Steam portal (no pun intended ) for linux and, hopefully, catching big name of video gaming industry in linux.
    2. Full set of dependencies to run apk (Davalik's virtual machine) in native mode on top of linux (3) kernel (for games and stuff )
    3. Onlive's linux support

    Let's pool!
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    Re: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    Steam for sure.
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    Re: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    Steam. I don't need Android games, I have a smartphone for that, and I don't want onlive, that eats up bandwidth and would destroy my 150 GB cap. And I don't really like the idea of not running the games on your own computer, just doesn't feel right to me.
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    Re: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    Onlive would give access to a ton more games than Steam, which is essentially just a storefront. Even if we got Steam and Source ported over to Linux, most games in Steam would still be off limits to us. Get Onlive working really well and it opens up their entire library.

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    Re: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    I say Steam.
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    Plus, running it under PlayOnLinux provides NO controller support at all.
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    Re: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    Uhh... None of the above. I dislike all of those options.

    Just games running with open-GL. There is no need to muddy it up with middle-men.

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    Re: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    Steam FoSo.
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    Re: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    Quote Originally Posted by Paqman View Post
    Onlive would give access to a ton more games than Steam, which is essentially just a storefront. Even if we got Steam and Source ported over to Linux, most games in Steam would still be off limits to us. Get Onlive working really well and it opens up their entire library.
    When steam was ported to OSX a lot of games developers ported their games too. Anything running directx is a write off, clearly, but it is definitely a start.

    Onlive from what I've heard does not even slightly compare with running the game natively.

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    Re: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    Steam for linux could be freaking awesome

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    Re: [pool] Could, Valve or Android gaming?

    Quote Originally Posted by morgan141 View Post
    When steam was ported to OSX a lot of games developers ported their games too.
    Mac has at least five times the number of users, and they're folks with good disposable incomes. I wouldn't be surprised if developers were a lot more cautious with Linux.

    Onlive from what I've heard does not even slightly compare with running the game natively.
    I've tried it, it works surprisingly well.

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